The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the United States, and was plagued by cost overruns, delays, leaks, design flaws ... $21.5 billion adjusted for inflation, a cost overrun of about 190%.
It's absurdly expensive even by the standards of absurdly expensive highway projects.
Shouldn't we maybe ... I don't know .. be putting that money towards the defense of Canada? Or, maybe more railways to the northern cities like Thunder Bay? I mean.. Armstrong has one, why the fuck doesn't Thunder Bay?
Or how about putting that money towards our health care? That would be nice.
It would just get held with all the other money earmarked for healthcare that isn't being spent.
Because none of the premiers would sign onto an agreement to spend the extra billions Trudeau gave them on healthcare alone. Provinces have been diverting healthcare money to other departments instead.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10729365/federal-health-spending-provinces-analysis/
Or if you really want to build roads, why not expand the divided highway in northern Ontario for highway 17 and highway 11
But I would much rather prefer you spend those billions on health care
Agreed.
Maybe even education, too!
Ford is a useless con twat.
You know what could solve that problem way better than yet another "one more lane" solution?
PUBLIC TRANSPORT. Expand light rail, buses, and trams to give people better ways to get in and out of Toronto. Adding more highways just means more cars, more congestion within the city, and more parking. It's a dead-end solution.
Trudeau has approved a high-speed rail project connecting Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto. Now we just need to wait for the next administration to cancel it.
I have a feeling that this sentiment will become more common place as Automobiles and Gasoline prices rise.
And chances are, if it ever does get built, in order to pay for it, it will be sold to a foreign controlled corporation who will turn it into a toll road that we will all have to continually pay for
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